This is an excellent list of sources and blogs. Happily, I was already following the majority of the blogs via RSS before I saw this, and now, your blog is also in my RSS feed! Coincidentally, a critique by my school Info Tech class of an 'infographic' - which it isn't - recently appeared in Junk Charts (http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2012/11/budding-graphics-connoisseurs-from-down-under.html).

Alberto,Thank you for editing this remarkable list. So many people have put their minds to this problem in recent years! I will use this for teaching my Information Architecture/Interaction Design students at Media Lab/Helsinki and UArts Philadelphia in the coming months.I want to also recommend Joel Katz's recent books, "Designing Information,Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design" (http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Information-Factors-Common-Design/dp/111834197X) to everyone working in the field. Katz's book focuses on the principals and practice of information design -- the heart and soul of any successful information graphic -- using hand-crafted two-page spreads to synthesize the ideas and techniques we all need to get our messages across. It is a great compliment to the sources you have collected here.

Thanks Prof Cairo for clarity and simplicity in your book. Appreciate the reading list as wells as those from your colleague Stephen Few. More journalists should be willing to relearn and acquire new tools of informing and educating to elicit change for a better society through application of data visualization. The risk lies in the myriad of SEO tricks on data visualization which can sully the process even while increasing awareness. I am extremely grateful to you and others like Stephen Few who are weeding through and clearing the pathways so students can get to the good stuff quickly. Great comprehensive list by Stephen Few as well.

I love this list - thank you for sharing. So far (and I haven't read them all) my favorite resources are the Cheat Sheet, 10 things you can learn from New York Times visualizations and How to become a data viz expert: A recipe. Of course I still have a lot more reading to do and looking forward to it!